Alone a candle can only light a room, but in thousands they can even light a city.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Leadership: In love with the team, not the spotlights.

Though I was starved for contact, I didn’t stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly speak the polite things strangers say to each other.

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.

Lore? Tell me what Sin said about you being tortured wasn't true,' He didn't look at her as he moved toward the bathroom. 'It wasn't true.' 'You're lying.' 'You told me to.

I think that there is just a deep and abiding sexism that's part of your life from the moment that you're conscious as a female.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.